Comment on the differences and similarities between The second coming and Things Fall apart and an extended study guide by Uni Student and edited by a professor. William Butler Yeats: "The Second Coming" (1921) Yeats was attracted to the spiritual and occult world and fashioned for himself an elaborate mythology to explain human experience. "The Second Coming," written after the catastrophe of World War I and with communism and fascism rising, is a compelling glimpse of …showed first 75 words of 3595 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3595 total…corrupted by a government which was not the organic creation of its people, but an alien structure imposed upon them. He has also published several other novels, a volume of short stories, and many poems and essays, and currently teaches at Bard College in New York. Like many Nigerian authors, he was an exile from his homeland where a military dictatorship was in power until he was able to return for a brief visit in 1998.